Toward the middle of Thursday’s long Assembly Government Affairs Committee hearing on a bill to build schools but not pay prevailing wages for school construction, Minority Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick said what was on a lot of people’s minds.

But Reid’s spokeswoman today denied an apology had been offered for Reid’s remarks, which were met with silence two years ago from a legislative chamber that included working girls and brothel owners who’d been tipped off that Reid intended to attack their industry.

Reid, Orthman said, still believes Nevada should outlaw prostitution in all of its counties. (Currently, it’s legal in most places in the state outside population centers such as Reno and Las Vegas.)

But Flint in an interview this afternoon stuck to his story. He said a woman whom he identified as “Adele” called from Reid’s majority leader office, which is housed in a different location than the senator’s official staff. She said Reid was recovering at the time from a fall that dislocated his shoulder, and was busy on the Senate floor, but instructed her to call to reaffirm Reid’s longstanding friendship and tell Flint that the senator didn’t want Flint to hold the speech against Reid.

“I took it as an apology,” said Flint, who confirmed that he and Reid have been friends for years. He recounted an incident in which Reid recalled a $500 contribution to Reid’s campaign for lieutenant governor, a donation the senator remembered years afterwards. Orthman also said that Reid maintains a good relationship with Flint, who has represented the legal brothel industry in Nevada since 1985.

3 Responses to “Being senator means never having to say you’re sorry”

Anyone attacking Harry Reid should be jailed under the defence authorization Act and the Patriot Act. Reid helped take down Bin Laden and saved Nevada from a tidal wave. We should build a huge solar powered Gitmo in central Nevada for Harry Reid’s critics and water board these people using Harry Reid saliva.